This paper deals with the incidence of housing subsidies, which is analysed using Finnish panel data. The main data set comprises 50 000 households that received housing allowances during the period 2000–2008. In addition, we utilize repeated cross-sections of all Finnish households for 1989–2008, the annual sample exceeding 10 000. Estimation results suggest that a part of the subsidies will i...

This paper uses household survey data to examine the impact of a food subsidies program on food consumption, caloric intake and calories from different foodgroups for poor households in India. The national food security program (PDS) for households below the poverty line takes the form of a monthly quota of food grains at substantially discounted prices; program rules differ by state and, in so...

There are strong incentives to delay or accelerate investment to take advantage of predictable changes in after-tax prices. For sufficiently long-lived capital goods, these incentives are so strong that the intertemporal elasticity of investment demand is nearly infinite. For temporary tax changes, the equilibrium shadow price of long-lived capital goods should fully reflect the tax subsidy reg...

Under conventional models, subsidizing energy efficiency requires electricity to be priced below marginal cost. Its benefits increase when electricity prices increase to finance the subsidy. With high prices, subsidies are counterproductive unless consumers fail to make efficiency investments when private benefits exceed costs. If the gain from adopting efficiency is only reduced electricity sp...

The growth of the sharing economy is driven by the emergence of sharing platforms, e.g., Uber and Lyft, that match owners looking to share their resources with customers looking to rent them. The design of such platforms is a complex mixture of economics and engineering, and how to “optimally”design such platforms is still an open problem. In this paper, we focus on the design of prices and sub...

Subsidies to consumers may cause firms charge higher prices, which offsets consumer benefits from subsidies. We study a subsidy program design that mitigates such price increases by making products' eligibility for dependent on firms' commitment ceilings. To quantify the importance of competition eligibility, we develop structural model and an estimation procedure accommodate binding pricing co...

The pharmaceutical subsidy scheme in Australia works in the public interest by keeping prices low while assuring access to drugs across most of the drug classes. By separating the approval to market drugs from the decision to subsidise them, the Commonwealth is able to take advantage of its position--to 'free-ride' on research and development expenditure in other countries. The first part of th...

A simple health promotion message administered by village midwives raised bednet usage to over 60% in trial hamlets in north Shan State, Myanmar. Treatment of the nets in the study villages produced a reduction in malaria cases. Most villagers were prepared to buy their nets at market prices and were willing to pay for the cost of re-treatment of nets, but very poor, members of the Wa ethnic gr...

Although there have been trout subsidies in Türkiye for many years, the fact that production has below expectations, especially recent led to need investigate effects of subsidies. Thus, present study was conducted estimate long-run relationship among production, producer price, and subsidy Türkiye. The time-series data covering 1984-2016 regarding sales prices, were used. Vector Error Correcti...